Voorbeelden van self-defense

• As to militancy, are governments with aggressive and interventionist foreign policies fundamentalist, no matter what cause they may invoke to justify their actions, including self-defense?

• The attacker, in turn, would have a right to resist the victim's self-defense, since he too is acting on a claim of right.

• A just war is a war of self-defense, a last-resort measure necessary to stave off an armed attack against a nation-state or recognized political community.

• In neither film does the dutiful son even consider raising his hand in self-defense or-unthinkable-in aggression.

• Although simple cases of self-defense raise the problem most simply, it is in fact ubiquitous.

• It is reasonable that she should have to do something to make her claim of self-defense or insanity plausible.

• The dispatch of ground self-defense forces is more politically sensitive than that of maritime forces.

• And victims are held liable for the harms done to their assailants in self-defense when those harms could have been avoided by their own retreat.

• The ease with which self-defense can be justified should not mislead us into thinking that it is the paradigmatic cases of legitimate preemption.

• Instead, they would invoke conflicting rights, such as the right to self-defense or a right to prevent aggression.

• Curiously, these two rather weak principles turn out to be too strong for ordinar y preventive practices like self-defense.

• Our rights of self-defense are not that tepid.

• But suppose that there is a special justification for self-defense against a non-responsible threat.

• Nonetheless, the juror will be instructed that he must convict unless he positively believes (instead of merely suspects) that the defendant acted in self-defense.

• The person who is acting in self-defense or who abandons a criminal attempt is like the blundering chess player.